Apple M1 iPad vs Apple A10 Fusion

SOC · Specs Compare

Products
SOC Apple M1 iPad Apple
SOC Apple A10 Fusion Apple
CPU
Architecture
4x 2.1 GHz – Firestorm4x 3.2 GHz – Icestorm
2x 2.34 GHz – Hurricane2x 1.05 GHz – Zephyr
Frequency
3200 MHz
2340 MHz
Cores
8
4
Instruction set
ARMv8.5-A
ARMv8-A
L1 cache
192 KB
64 KB
L2 cache
0
0
Process
5 nm
16 nm
Transistor count
16
3.3
TDP
14 W
5 W
Manufacturing
TSMC
TSMC
L3 cache
—
0
Graphics
GPU name
Apple M1 GPU
PowerVR GT7600
GPU frequency
1278 MHz
650 MHz
Execution units
8
6
Shading units
128
32
Vulkan version
—
1.1
OpenCL version
—
1.2
DirectX version
—
12
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR4X
LPDDR4
Memory frequency
4266 MHz
1333 MHz
Bus
4x 16 Bit
2x 16 Bit
Max bandwidth
68.25 Gbit/s
14.9 Gbit/s
AI
NPU
Apple Neural Engine
—
Theoretical Performance
11 TOPS
—
Multimedia (ISP)
Neural processor (NPU)
Yes
Apple M10
Storage type
NVMe
NVMe
Max display resolution
2732 x 2048
2048 x 1536
Video capture
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video playback
4K at 60FPS
4K at 60FPS
Video codecs
H.264, H.265, VP9, Motion JPEG
H.264, H.265, VC-1, Motion JPEG
Audio codecs
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
AAC, AIFF, CAF, MP3, MP4, WAV
Max camera resolution
—
1x 32MP, 2x 12MP
Connectivity
4G support
LTE Cat. 18
LTE Cat. 12
5G support
Yes
No
Download speed
Up to 7500 Mbps
Up to 600 Mbps
Upload speed
Up to 2500 Mbps
Up to 100 Mbps
Wi-Fi
6
5
Bluetooth
5.0
4.2
Navigation
GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS
GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo
Info
Announced
Nov 2020
Sep 2016
Class
Flagship
Flagship
Model number
APL1102
APL1W24
Benchmark
AnTuTu 10
1,709,057
347,439
Geekbench 6
2,304
—
Geekbench 6
8,422
—
FP32 (float)
2,617
249
▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.